Black Wood Pigeon

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When to see the Black Wood Pigeon

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 11 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is May, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Black Wood Pigeon

The map shades 3 countries with regular records, and 1 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Recorded as a rare visitor in Mongolia.

About the Black Wood Pigeon

The black wood pigeon or Japanese wood pigeon is a species of bird in the family Columbidae. It is found in East Asia, occurring mainly on offshore islands of the Pacific's Korea Strait, Philippine Sea and East China Sea around Japan, Korea, China, and Taiwan. Its natural habitats are temperate forests and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. The species is in decline owing to habitat loss, habitat degradation, deforestation and hunting. This wood pigeon is endemic to laurel forest habitat.

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Easily confused with

Eastern Bronze-naped PigeonColumba delegorgueiThe eastern bronze-naped pigeon, also known as Delegorgue's pigeon, is a species of bird in the family Columbidae. Afep PigeonColumba unicinctaThe afep pigeon is 35–36 cm (13.8–14.2 in) length and weighs between 356–490 g (12.6–17.3 oz). Sri Lanka Wood PigeonColumba torringtoniaeThe Sri Lankan wood pigeon or Ceylon wood pigeon is a pigeon which is an endemic resident breeding bird in the mountains of Sri Lanka.